“If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.” PeopleIfsThinkingImportantWholeShapesAmbitionInspiredThemeContributionBeing The BestMeaninglessConquest Author:Rob Morrow
“My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work.” Has BeensImportantSupportBuildingAmbitionStructureArchitectureMinimumDiminishMy AmbitionAudacious Author:Oscar Niemeyer
“Life is good. I've got a apartment that is paid for with rap money. It's good. It's amazing. It's a blessing. I wake up every day and appreciate how much of a blessing this is getting to do this. But it is important to always stay humble, grounded, focused, and maintain that same ambition you had when you had nothing.” ImportantLife IsBlessingAmbitionAppreciateWake UpPaidHumbleRapFocusedApartmentGroundedLife Is GoodStay Humble Author:G-Eazy
“Being kind is the most important thing Ive ever been taught. Thats what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.” PeopleKindImportantParentTaughtAmbitionImportant ThingsBe KindAspireCornerstones Author:Rafe Spall
“To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.” ShouldImportantLife IsGoalAmbitionLunchLaddersPlaygrounds Book:Mystery at Geneva Source: Mystery at Geneva
“It's important to me that the reader goes on a ride with the characters, that you set context enough to know, "Okay, here's where we are in the world. Now we're just going to go inside this person's head, this guy's heart, this woman's ambitions and take it down to very, very small scale."” KnowsWorldHeartPersonsImportantEnoughCharacterGuyGoes OnReaderAmbitionOkayScalesThis Guy Author:Don Winslow
“The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.” ImportantCharacterTermPovertyAchievementAmbitionGainsAppearanceSubstanceLastingDisplayShort TermElevation Author:Barack Obama
“Every business is manmade. It is a result of individuals. It reflects the personalities and the business philosophy of the founders and those who have directed its affairs throughout its existence. If you want to have an understanding of any business, it is important to know the background of the people who started it and directed its past and the hopes and ambitions of those who are planning its future.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantImportantPhilosophyPastIndividualUnderstandingResultsExistencePersonalityAmbitionAffairPlanningBackgroundsFounders Author:Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.
“When you meet the one. It just clicks. Clicking is important in a relationship. When you click, you share the same passion and worldviews, ambitions and dreams. You are willing to share your inner thoughts, fears, desires and secrets. When you click, your partner makes you comfortable in your skin, he or she knows what you need even you're quiet, knows when to give advice and when to just listen. When you click, you allow your partner to steadily be what they desire to be, while you be a steady presence” KnowsNeedsGivingImportantDreamDesirePassionFriendshipSecretShareAdviceWillingQuietAmbitionComfortableSkinsPartnersSteadyWorldviewClicksJust ListenAmbitions And Dreams Author:Rita Zahara
“I have no ambition for what society says is important as far as things like money, and all that kind of stuff. What I am ambitious about is I want to be the best wrestler that I can possibly be, and I think there's some sort of mistake in generations, as far as what he thinks as far as our generation lacking ambition.” ThinkingWantKindI CanImportantStuffMistakeGenerationsAmbitionBeing The BestAmbitiousLackingOur GenerationWrestler Author:Daniel Bryan
“I'd like to take a motorcycle trip across Europe, maybe even across China. Of course I'd also like to broker a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but it's important to put ceilings on one's ambitions.” ImportantCoursesAmbitionEuropeChinaAgreementPalestinianCeilingsMotorcycleBrokers Author:Stephen King
“My most important inspirational job that I do is raising those kids. That's my job. And that's where my ambition goes. But I have a life. I'm not only their mother. I'm still who I was before, I just don't get to be it all the time.” StillsImportantKidsJobsMotherAmbitionMy Ambition Author:Pat Benatar
“Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.” ImportantAmbitionMissionsEmployeeGreat Employee Author:Ben Horowitz
“We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark at the young about the gentle arts of the spirit. The kids know that if we really valued learning, we would pay our teachers what we pay our lawyers and stockbrokers. If we valued art, we would not measure it by its capacity to produce profits. If we regarded literature as important, we would remove it from the celebrity sweepstakes and spend a little money on our libraries.” IfsKnowsLittlesArtImportantKidsYoungSpiritLiteraturePayTeacherProduceHonorAmbitionWorshipCapacityRewardsLibraryGreedProfitLawyerCelebrateGentleRemoveMaterialismCherishBarkLittle MoneyStockbrokersSweepstakes Author:Russell Baker
“The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable in it are diligence, discipline, ambition, and a willingness to take risks. Education and credentials are most important in government; elsewhere most skills are learned on the job.” WorldImportantStatesGovernmentJobsUnitedUnited StatesVirtueRiskDisciplineSkillsAmbitionValuableWillingnessElsewhereWorld HistoryMobileDiligenceCredentials Author:George Gilder
“The Champions League is a big ambition and all the footballers want to play in it. It is a very important competition.” WantImportantPlayBigsAmbitionCompetitionLeagueChampionFootballerChampions League Author:Fernando Torres
“I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.” LittlesImportantGirlUniverseVoiceBenefitsAmbitionImportant ThingsCharityQueensPlatformsTypicalNerdyPageantContestantsUnesco Author:Joyce Giraud
“I believe that the establishment of a real ambition, a powerfully galvanizing and exciting vision of what a group is setting out to create, is vitally important.” BelieveImportantRealI BelieveVisionGroupsAmbitionExcitingSettingSettingsEstablishment Author:Kevin Allen
“I used to be very ambitious. But reality taught me that ambition won't get you everything you want. You need more than just passion and hope. It's important to do what I'm good at and suits me.” WantNeedsImportantRealityUsedPassionTaughtAmbitionUsed To BeSuitsAmbitious Author:Seungri
“I do believe that India needs a lot more foreign direct investment than we've got, and we should have the ambition to move in the same league many other countries in our neighborhood are moving. We may not be able to reach where the Chinese are today, but there is no reason why we should not think big about the role of foreign direct investment, particularly in the areas relating to infrastructure, where our needs for investment are very large. We need new initiatives, management skills, and I do believe that direct foreign investment can play a very important role.” ThinkingNeedsShouldBelieveMayImportantCountryReasonPlayBigsTodayAbleMovingRolesSkillsAmbitionAreasDirectShould HaveIndiaManagementInvestmentChineseReason WhyLeagueNeighborhoodNo ReasonInitiativeOther CountriesInfrastructureThink BigManagement Skills Author:Manmohan Singh
“I think that at a certain stage those early ambitions burn away, partly because you achieve something, you get something done, you get some notoriety. And then the particularities of who you are and what your deepest commitments are begin expressing themselves. You're not just chasing the idea of "me" being important, but you, rather, are chasing a particular passion.” ThinkingImportantIdeasDoneCertainPassionAchieveStageParticularAmbitionCommitmentWho You AreChasingNotoriety Author:Barack Obama
“You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove myself to this apparition who had vanished. You could argue that me being a mixed kid in a place where there weren't a lot of black kids around might have spurred on my ambitions. You could go through a whole litany of things that sparked me wanting to do something important.” TryingImportantWholeMightKidsFatherBlackProveAmbitionLeavingArguingAbsentMy AmbitionProve MyselfApparitionsFather Leaving Author:Barack Obama
“Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women who have important posts very often adopt masculine standards-power, ambition, personal success - and cut themselves off from other women.” ImportantSometimesHelpingAcceptingCuttingConditionsPositionAmbitionStandardsPostsMasculinePersonal Success Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“The amount of guilt you deal with as a parent is pretty profound. It's a constant balancing act. I'm an ambitious person, but when I became a father, ambition had a different hold on me. Providing for my kids was important, but the superficial ambition drifted away.” ImportantDifferentKidsFatherParentAmbitionGuiltProfoundAmbitiousSuperficial Author:Jim Gaffigan
“One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family.” ImportantReasonAmbitionNuclearContinuingKoreaNorth KoreaKim Author:Lee Myung-bak
“Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?” MenLoveGivingImportantEndsAgeAmbitionConsequenceSeasonsBoundsDearPassagesUrgencyRiteRite Of Passage Author:Seth Grahame-Smith
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.” PeopleFeelsTryingKindImportantBigsPurposePlansDesignInspirational LifeAmbitionFilledSeekingHanging OutReally GreatAssociatesBelittleFruition Author:Mark Twain
“The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.” ImportantAmbitionImportant Things Author:Frida Kahlo
“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you will threaten the man.' Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices, always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now, marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support, but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same?” MenShouldMindImportantJoyChoicesGirlWomenInspiringBoysTeachSupportSuccessfulToo MuchHe ManSourceAmbitionFemaleAnd LoveAimExpectedBeing SuccessfulMutualAspireShrinksLife ChoicesFlawlessMutual SupportSay To A Girl Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“WE NEED MORE OF THOSE AND IF YOU STILL HATE THE WORD, IT IS NOT THE WORD THAT IS IMPORTANT. IT'S THE IDEA AND THE AMBITION BEHIND IT.” IfsNeedsStillsImportantIdeasMotivationalHateBehindsAmbitionGenderGender Equality Author:Emma Watson
“Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.” PeopleWayImportantSeemsFoundCommonHumilityGrewAmbitionGrew UpMovedHumbleCalifornia Author:Anna Kendrick
“Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate and more powerful neighbors, namely Russia, Turkey and Iran, with China also signaling an increasing political interest in the region. But the Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential economic prize: an enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves is located in the region, in addition to important minerals, including gold.” ImportantPoliticalThreeInterestNaturalPowerfulEconomicSecurityAmbitionGoldImportanceHistoricalIncludingChinaOilNeighborRussiaEnormousGasConcentrationRegionsPrizeIranRepublicReservesTurkeysAsianStandpointMineralsNatural GasBalkans Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will. Understand that they are very ambitious; but their ambition, first and foremost, is for the company's success. They realize that the most important step they must make to become a Level 5 leader is to subjugate their ego to the company's performance. When asked for interviews, these leaders will agree only if it's about the company and not about them.” IfsFirstsImportantRealizingLeadershipLevelsBusinessCompanyLeaderStepsWonderfulHumilityEgoAmbitionPerformancesAgreeExtraordinaryInterviewsAmbitious Author:James C. Collins
“The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does.” DoeImportantRememberSpiritualValuesGrowthWorkTalkingCareersDevelopmentHigherAmbitionIntelligentImportant ThingsPersonal GrowthDrinkingIntelligenceAlcoholDrunkExplorationConcentratingPubsWorkaholicSpiritual Values Author:Shane MacGowan